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I have a small dilemma with my fanfic. Should I let Snowing go on the mission to rescue Henry or not?
On the one hand, it makes sense storywise for Emma to ask them to stay with Henry’s body so that there is someone there for him when he wakes up plus it keeps groupings small which would be easier to write for in the chapter after the next one.
However, equally there is a good scene in my mind where Snowing is debating on whether they should go or not. Because of their shared heart, it is literally a “together or not at all” situation. Emma says she understands if they want to stay because of baby Neal which Snow tries to use to strengthen her argument to stay. However, Charming counters that all their life, they put other people before Emma, leading to her growing up alone and that they weren’t there for her when she needed them most. Snow brings up the baby Lily incident and how they put Emma first there, but Charming says they did that because of their own selfish desires to have a “hero” child instead of letting Emma choose her own path. Charming says it’s time to put Emma first and that, if they should die, baby Neal will know they died trying to do the right thing. (Also Charming would be able to recognise a certain character which would lead to a nice family moment).
Emma, Regina and Hook have to go on this mission but there is a difference between writing for 3 characters and having to write for 5 plus the other characters. Snowing would be great for the speech about going and then the family moment but I have nothing for them to do between those two points.
What should I do?
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Keeper of FelixJust thought, there’s a lot of parallels between certain characters in the Harry Potter books. For Example:
Voldemort and Dumbledore- Powerful wizards with loyal followers
The Dursleys and the Malfoys- A family trio (consisting of a father, mother and son) that extremely dislike Harry muggles/wizards aren’t as good as wizards/muggles respectively.
Ron and Hermione and Crabbe and Goyle- Best friends to the leaders of their little trio, Harry and Draco respectively.
Basicaly, throughout her books, Rowling has given us characters who are two sides of the same coin.
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Keeper of FelixConsidering true love is supposed to be this super rare thing, lots of people have it.
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Keeper of Felixhttps://www.fanfiction.net/s/11449753/4/Ghosts-of-the-Past
Chapter 4 of my fanfic
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Keeper of FelixI totally know what you mean DO, however I think it’s slightly different in that Rumple’s not dead. Crack theory: that’s not the real Rumple or even his consciousness, that’s the darkness taking Rumple’s form kind of like the first evil in Buffy.
Also Zelena throws Hook against the wall with her magic! Whilst this is probably when Zelena escapes her cell, why is Hook there in the first place? What was he trying to do that backfired on him? (if you pause the video, you can see it’s not Colin that hits the wall)
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Keeper of FelixGoing back to a topic a few pages ago, if Harry had befriended Draco rather than becoming enemies with him, what’s to say Harry’s influence wouldn’t have rubbed off on Draco rather than vice versa?
Spoilering just in case but apparently Draco’s views and opinions towards others stem from his father and when Draco had a son, he and his wife made sure the child did not spend too much time around Lucius so that the boy didn’t turn into another mini Draco
Whilst Draco’s actions towards others from book 1-5 can’t be excused, one has to wonder how different he would’ve turned out if he’d had a dad like Arthur Weasley rather than Lucius Malfoy?
Also going back to Draco calling Hermione Mudblood after Hermione accused Draco of buying his way onto the Slytherin Quidditch team and the reader being led to assume Hermione in the right, there may actually be evidence to prove that Hermione is wrong in her assumption:
1. Students aren’t normally allowed to join the house quidditch team until their second year. Harry was the exception.
2. When Draco stole Neville’s remembrall during the first flying lesson, he actually showed some good manouvering on the broomstick, dodging Harry when Harry flew at him.It is very possible that Draco earned his place on the team honestly, and Hermione was in the wrong to accuse him of bribing his way in. Though this does not excuse Draco calling Hermione “mudblood”, it could explain why he reacted in that particular way.
How different would the readers view Draco if the story had been told from his point of view rather than Harry’s?
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Keeper of FelixJust a point to add to this debate but at the end of Deathly Hallows Harry’s son is worried about being sorted into Slytherin much like his father 26 years earlier. However this time Harry reassures him that it’s okay to be in Slytherin and that the bravest man he knew (Snape) was from Slytherin.
Slytherin is still being treated as the worst house 26 years later but as Harry points out, your choice counts. You can be in Slytherin and still be a good person. All the “dark” witches and wizards may have been in Slytherin but that doesn’t mean all Slytherins are going to turn into dark witches or wizards. It is all a matter of choice. However it is the generalisation from other houses that Slytherin is the “bad” house and people’s attitude towards Slytherin students that can in turn inadvertently put them on the path to darkness.
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Keeper of Felixdoes the Slytherin reputation stem from *just* the recent past or has it been the house of ill repute (so to speak) since the beginning? I mean, Godric Gryffindor and the other two seem to have no qualm about setting up an entire school with Salazar Slytherin.
I think Slytherin has been that way since the beginning: its founder sought to exclude all muggle-born wizards and witches from Hogwarts. The other founders opposed Salazar’s policy; Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff didn’t see eye to eye with Salazar Slytherin, who thought “pure-blooded” wizards and witches were the best. In fact, Godric and Salazar had a big falling out over it, because Godric insisted on admitting muggle-born wizards, resulting in Salazar leaving Hogwarts never to return.
My question is this: has any muggle-born witch or wizard ever been admitted to Slytherin? How would she or he have been treated by the other Slytherins? We know ‘half-blooded’ wizards have come from Slytherin, but even they were full of self-loathing for having a muggle as a parent.
I think if a muggle-born witch/wizard had been admitted to Slytherin, they would have generally been treated fine. Slytherin seem to look out for their own and it’s not necessarily the house that is racist but certain individuals.
As I said before, Slytherin has a bad reputation and there is a sense that Gryffindor looks down on Slytherin whereas if they treated them more equally then maybe there wouldn’t be so many problems. It seems like Slytherin/Gryffindor have to take classes together and Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw take classes together. Had Slytherin taken classes with Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, would they be viewed so negatively since they seem to be most antagonistic with Gryffindor?
As it is, we only get Harry’s/Ron’s view of Slytherin. The book seems very biased towards Gryffindor’s point of view since that is the house the main heroes are in. We also don’t get many named Slytherin. We have the likes of Draco Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and a few others. It’s almost as if a few bad apples are seen as representative of their house. Not only that, but the only times we really see the Slytherins is when they are in conflict with our heroes which in turn automatically paints them in a negative light as the villains.
Question: In the books, is Draco generally referred to by his first name or is it generally his last name Malfoy that is used?
If it is the latter, then that can make the reader subconsciously dislike the Slytherins because there is a lack of kinship. We have Harry, Ron, Hermione, Seamus, Dean, Neville, the reader is all on first name basis with them but then for Slytherin you’ve got Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle which suggests a less friendly connection.
During GOF Both Hufflepuff and Slytherin students were wearing the “Potter Stinks” badges whilst showing support for Cedric Diggory. Chances are some of those Hufflepuffs may have been Muggle-born and yet that didn’t bother the current Slytherins.
The thing is, as far as I can recall, the only time we have seen Draco use the term “Mudblood” is in reference to Hermione which suggest that, whilst the term is still derogatory and he was wrong to use it, his problem isn’t with muggle-born witches or wizards in general but with Hermione. In context this makes sense as Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle are written as the antagonist trio to Harry, Ron and Hermione’s protagonist trio.
Also one has to consider where Draco would even have heard the term “Mudblood” to be able to use it in the correct context. It is seen as derogatory so it’s not something that would be thrown about in polite conversation. When we meet Draco’s parents especially his father, we find them quite elitist and snobbish and these are all values that they would’ve passed down to their son. When Draco first uses the term “mudblood” as an insult towards Hermione, it’s in COS when Hermione accuses Draco of buying his way onto the team with the new broomsticks. She is very snooty about it as well. The viewer is biased towards seeing Hermione as in the right (and there is a strong suggestion that she may be correct about the broomsticks being a bribe) but the way she went about it, if you take a step back, is very wrong. She basically belittled another student in front of not only their new quidditch team but in front of the opposing quidditch team as well, insinuating that they don’t have the talent to earn their place on the team. Of course Draco was going to come back with the most insulting thing he could think of. Whilst Draco was wrong to say what he did, Hermione was equally wrong to try and embarrass him in front of 13 other people. If Hermione was so concerned about Draco bribing his way onto the team rather than earned it, she should have taken it up with a teacher, not accusing him in front of a large crowd. For all that Hermione and the reader knows, the truth could actually be that Draco did try out and earned his place on the team honestly and that the broomsticks were a reward for making the team.
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Keeper of Felix
